Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
- prostitute
- based on novel or book
- despair
- courtesan
- banishment
- concubine
- memory
- told in flashback
- forced prostitution
- noblewoman
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Toshirō Mifune — Katsunosuke
- Jūkichi Uno — Yakichi Ogiya
- Eitarō Shindō — Kahe Sasaya
- Akira Ōizumi — Fumikichi
- Masao Shimizu — Kikuoji
- Daisuke Katō — Tasaburo Hishiya
- Toranosuke Ogawa — Yoshioka
- Eijirō Yanagi — Counterfeiter
- Komako Hara — Otsubone Kuzui
- Kikue Mōri — Myokai, the old nun
- Sadako Sawamura — Sasaya's wife Owasa
- Directed
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Written
- Yoshikata Yoda, Kenji Mizoguchi
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 196 ratings
- Studio
- Koi Productions, Shintoho Company, TOHO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
